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  • Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models

    With Applications in R

    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building, evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of species and biodiversity. Beginning with the main theory behind ecological niches and species distributions, the book proceeds through all major steps of model building, from conceptualization and model training to model ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

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  • Gaia:A New Look at Life on Earth

    A New Look at Life on Earth

    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    In this classic work that continues to inspire its many readers, Jim Lovelock puts forward his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for non-scientists, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the face of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices

    Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists

    From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance. To those of us who care about our ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Plea for the Animals

    The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion

    Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Finding Beauty in a Broken World

    "Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A River Runs Again

    India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

    Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present.In this lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Digging the City

    An Urban Agriculture Manifesto

    by Rhona McAdam ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada’s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies in Canada’s ability to feed the urban poor; our dependence on imported foods and centralized food ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Round River

    by Aldo Leopold ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. The journal entries included here were written in camp during his many field trips--hunting, fishing, and exploring--and they indicate the source of ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. They reflect as well two long canoe trips in Canada ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Ecosystem Ecology

    A New Synthesis

    Series series Ecological Reviews
    What can ecological science contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the natural systems that underpin human well-being? Bridging the natural, physical and social sciences, this book shows how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach to environmental management. The authors recognise that ecosystems are rich in linkages between biophysical and social ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • What Is Water?

    The History of a Modern Abstraction

    by Jamie Linton ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water.Jamie Linton dives into the history of the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Ecology of the Indonesian Seas Part 2

    Series Book 2 - Ecology Of Indonesia Series
    The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas distills for the first time the information found in thousands of scholarly works relevant to an understanding of the sustainable use of marine and coastal resources in these islands&8212;many of them available up to now only in Dutch, German or Indonesian. It is an invaluable tool for government planners, resource managers, ecologists, university students, scuba ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Ecology of Oneness

    A Preparation and Guide to Awakening in a Free World

    by Robert Sachs ...
    We live in a melting pot world where competing worldviews and paradigms contribute to, but are also the victim of collapsing social and political infrastructures. Add to this undeniable climate change and the result is global turbulence manifesting as environmental degradation, wars, terrorism, growing fundamentalisms, pandemics, and increasing levels of despair and anxiety. Yet, there is also ... Read more

    $5.39 USD